Greetings Everyone,
The Admiral has promoted herself to a shore-side job so the skipper will be doing the updates this year. I am doing one last trip to the Louisiades to finish off some jobs there. Bruce Bentley — friend who sailed from Tunisia to the Caribbean with me will crew from Bundaberg. Bruce used to sail his own yacht to the Louisiades and has lived there for almost 12 months at one time. We are both looking forward to meeting up with our close friends over there.
My son Glenn is crewing with me from Iluka to Bundaberg. We left last Tuesday and had a lousy trip to Southport. The wind was over 30 knots going from on the nose to right behind as the squalls passed through. Add the 2-3 metre swells just aft of the beam and we had a very rolly trip. Glenn was sick for the first 12 hours but after a couple of Kwells and a good sleep he really brightened up.
We look like staying at Southport until the weekend as the strong winds are putting a 3-4 metre swell on Wide Bay Bar which we have to cross to enter the Great Sandy Strait. A yacht went across it a couple of day ago and lost everything off their deck including the dinghy. We’ll wait.
God bless,
Phil
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